Fan plotted to castrate and kill Bieber

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Dana Martin confessed to persuading two other men to commit the murderAP Photo/Times Argus, Jeb Wallace-Brodeur

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Target: Justin BieberOwen Sweeney / Rex Features

Sadie Gray

Last updated at 9:52AM, December 14 2012

The pop star Justin Bieber was the target of a bizarre murder plot involving a
paisley tie, some pruning shears and an imprisoned man so infatuated with
the teen idol that he had a tattoo of him.

Dana Martin, 45, who is serving a life sentence in New Mexico for killing a
15-year-old girl from Vermont in 2000, told investigators that he had
hatched a plot to castrate and kill the pop star, his bodyguard and two
others not connected with Bieber.

According to documents filed in a New Mexico district court, Martin confessed
that he had persuaded Mark Staake,